ABOUT
HakimLamb is a database created in 2025 for publications that explore alternatives to animal-based products by listing their benefits for health, environment, religion, ethics, and preservation of culture, among others.
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North America, Europe and China have an overwhelming number of publications. To make the data representative for the whole world, we make sure to cover under-represented regions like Africa, Middle East, Latin America and Southeast Asia.
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We are not a publisher but rather a data analysis group.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
What is HakimLamb?
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HakimLamb is an interactive map that lists the origin and source of scientific publications that promote an increase in the consumption of plant-based products and/or decrease in the consumption of animal-based products, for reasons ranging from environment protection to reducing risk of chronic diseases.
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What does "HakimLamb" mean?
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"Hakim" means "wise" (Øكيم), with a close variant meaning "ruler" (Øاکم) in Arabic, whereas it also means "physician of traditional medicine" in English. "Lamb" refers to the animal "lamb" in English. It symbolizes the wisdom that heals, the care-taking and wise decision-making that is needed to make Earth a peaceful and prosperous place for all.
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What is vegan-forward?
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Vegan-forward are publications that conclude a description or benefit of vegan diets, vegan practices or vegan technologies.
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What do you mean by vegetarian-forward? Is it promoting dairy, eggs, silk, etc.?
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Vegetarian-forward are publications that conclude a description or benefit of increasing plant-based consumption, but still including dairy, eggs and other animal derivatives (except meat).
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No. These studies may mention benefits of a vegetarian products as a whole without comparing them with a vegan products, whether because the authors are focusing on vegetarianism or because veganism is interpreted as a subclass of vegetarianism.
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What do you mean by plant-based-forward? Is it promoting meat?
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Plant-based forward are publications that conclude a description or benefit of increasing plant-based consumption, but where products of animal origin are still included in the studies.
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No. They may still mention benefits of animal-based products within the same publication, but always highlighting the vegan ones as a step healthier, more sustainable, more environmentally-friendly or more ethically prudent.
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What publications I will not find here?
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Publications that conclude exclusive benefits or superiority of products of animal origin, of products tested in animals, or with statements that are against the consumption of vegan products are not listed. They exist elsewhere for a variety of reasons, like physical properties, biochemical properties or historical use, often neglecting or underestimating the long-lasting negative effects for human health, land use, water use, economy and climate change.
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Is HakimLamb a complete database?
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No. HakimLamb does not contain all vegan-forward, vegetarian-forward and plant-based forward publications, and is not as broad as modern academic search engines. New items are verified and added every month to ensure the representativity of the information.
TERMS OF USE
HakimLamb is not a publisher and does not offer free access to pay-per-view publications.
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Cite BibTex item to cite HakimLamb:
@misc{hakimlamb2025DL,
author = "DL",
title = "HakimLamb Database",
month = "feb",
year = "2025",
url= "https://www.hakimlamb.org" }
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PRIVACY POLICY
Last updated on 01 April 2025.
Data collection
HakimLamb collects access data for traffic analysis.
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